Epigrams. IV. On Durer's Melencolia by William Watson. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Epigrams. IV. On Dürer’s Melencolia

William Watson (1858–1935)


WHAT holds her fixed far eyes nor lets them range?
Not the strange sea, strange earth, or heav’n more strange;
But her own phantom dwarfing these great three,
More strange than all, more old than heav’n, earth, sea.